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Online Platform opens the way for meditation in Arabic & English
ShalaOnline is the wellbeing platform we need, especially during the pandemic. The Sustainabilist spoke with Tamara Hachem, CEO and Founder, about the physical and mental wellbeing matters addressed in both Arabic and English on ShalaOnline.com 1. What is ShalaOnline and what services does it offer? ShalaOnline.com is an on-demand streaming platform of online yoga […]
Lenovo: Offsetting Tech’s Carbon Footprint Represents the Future of Retail
A recent report by Boston Consulting Group found that 80% of GCC consumers are willing to live more sustainably, and with increased awareness of their impact on the environment, more would be receptive to changing their behaviors. Across the region, national leadership remains committed to implementing greener solutions, and greater education forms a key cornerstone […]
Fifth Expo 2020 International Participants Meeting
Expo 2020 Dubai and its 190-plus participating countries are committed to working together to achieve shared goals and are making strong progress with preparations for the global event, which will begin on 1 October 2021. Organisers, members of the Expo 2020 Dubai Higher Committee and BIE representatives, plus participants, commercial partners and government officials from […]
‘Green Recovery’ takes Center Stage at ADSW
Registration is now open for the ADSW Summit, part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), the global platform for accelerating sustainable development, which will take place virtually on January 2021. Hosted by Masdar, the ADSW Summit will, over three two-hour sessions, focus on the pillars of “Live & Move”, “Care & Engage”, and “Work & […]
The Start-Up Made for Parents in the UAE
QiDZ is the app for kids-related fun, education and entertainment in the UAE “where all the information was up to date, real time, relevant and available at our fingertips,” writes Simona Agolini, CEO of QiDZ, business woman, and mother. Together with Ines Mena, Claudia Ribas, Nourhan Hassan and Therese Hundt, Simona founded an app to […]
COVID-19: The Upcoming Digital Tsunami in Retail
By Dr. Saeeda Jaffar, Managing Director and Head of Middle East, and Tanveer Awan, Managing Director, Strategy and Performance Improvement Practice, Alvarez & Marsal, Dubai The boom in the GCC’s retail industry comes with a number of challenges, the newest of which is the pandemic Over the past few years, ecommerce has witnessed an […]
Why Safeguarding Water is Imperative for the Protection of the Natural World
By Francois Frigaux, Regional Director of Sensus, a Xylem brand Earlier this month, we celebrated World Environment Day, an annual day focused on generating worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. This year’s theme was centred around the biodiversity, with the aim of shining a spotlight on the inextricable link between biodiversity […]
Nestlé Creating Shared Value Prize 2020
The Nestlé Creating Shared Value Prize 2020 has been launched in partnership with Ashoka, the world’s leading network of systems-changing social entrepreneurs, for submissions from innovators tackling the challenge of “How do we create a waste-free future?” Entry is open to social and commercial enterprises, nonprofits and NGOs. Winners will receive a cash prize of […]
Profit, People and the Planet
By Ashraf Abdelkhalek, Environment, Health & Safety and Real Estate Manager at Schneider Electric Sustainability Sustainability is all about three things; economic growth, people development and sustainable planet earth. Economic growth and associated profitability is a main prime-mover of many things that we do. It maintains the need for economic interactions and makes these […]
A New Baseline for a Greater Collective Action
By Ibrahim Al-Zu’bi, Chief Sustainability Officer at Majid Al Futtaim Holding Over the centuries, humans have fundamentally changed the make-up of our planet. Our activities have caused global warming and the destruction of the natural world with farming, mining, and housing driving wildlife out of their natural habitats and into more contact with people. […]
